3 Aug, 2020 @ 18:38
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Spain adds more than 8,500 COVID-19 cases over weekend – but data missing on Madrid and Catalunya due to ‘technical issues’

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SPAIN has registered 8,523 coronavirus cases between Friday and Monday.

According to the figures from the Health Ministry, that is an average of 2,133 cases each day.

The numbers are much higher than a week ago, which saw 6,361 cases counted over the weekend.

Meanwhile, due to ‘technical problems’, today’s data did not include new cases in the hardest hit regions of Madrid, Catalunya and Navarra.

Excluding these regions, there have been 968 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.

That figure is already more than 100 more than what was recorded last Monday, when all regions were included.

Since Friday, there have been 77 new official outbreaks across the country, bringing the total to 680 since lockdown ended.

Aragon saw the most cases with 586 in the past 23 hours.

The government there has announced the closure of all nightlife venues but continues to struggle to get a hold of the situation in Zaragoza.

More to follow…

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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